Andrew Huff said that Peter Daszak was working for the CIA. This claim appears well supported by the evidence (i.e. the obvious funding links between EcoHealth, In-Q-Tel, and USAID).
DTRA and USAID have their fingers in labs all over the world, via the CBEP/BTRP, EPT-PREDICT, and the like. The claim by DTRA-associated folks is that this is basically a jobs program; have them work on our projects so they aren't building viruses for dictators.
The general idea, then, is that the CIA was essentially paying EcoHealth to spy on the WIV and gather intelligence on Chinese GOF/DURC research techniques.
Now, here's the part that still doesn't make sense to me.
-If the CIA wanted access to the WIV, why would they buy this access by giving away the crown jewels of the US biodefense mafia's coronavirus research, Ralph Baric's reverse genetics techniques, to the PLA to use as they please?
-The proposition behind DEFUSE is to reduce the threat of bat sarbecoviruses to US troops by inoculating bats in caves. Why would the Chinese agree to collaborate with a foreign NGO working on a means to protect US soldiers invading China from coronaviruses?
These two things, in combination, only make sense in one single context, and that's the CIA treasonously collaborating with the Chinese to develop a viral bioweapon to attack the rest of us, as absurd as that sounds.
Let's consider the null hypotheses.
-The CIA let Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli collaborate in a way that would transfer proprietary US know-how and intellectual property to China, but not for any nefarious reasons. In this scenario, the CIA are startlingly incompetent, giving away intelligence to China for free while gaining nothing in return.
-China willingly let the US develop countermeasures to protect US troops in China from bat viruses. In other words, Chinese military/intelligence let US intelligence run their labs for them without oversight or interference.
Neither of these make any sense at all, unless both US and Chinese intelligence are staffed by lobotomy patients.
Or, the CIA didn't stupidly give away Baric's techniques (which would be the opposite of intelligence-gathering). Instead, they exported those techniques to China on purpose, so they could construct the virus they needed to cause chaos.
China, for their part, knew that the DEFUSE project's very premise was a false cover story to rope DARPA in for funding.
Given the facts, this is the only scenario that actually makes sense.